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Domestic. Slavery. We copied a short time since, some remarks of a writer in the Greensboro' Patriot, on a part of the Governor's late Message the last num ber of the Patriot contains some stric tures on those remarks, by another writer, from which wc have extracted the following: Governor Burton in his Mes sage to the last General Assem bly asks the important question, "what can stay the tide of emi gration now flowing to the West, but the improvement of our State!" Amicus, in his learned comment on this passage says: "hut wheth er draining the Swamps will he found sufficient improvement to stay the tide of emigration, may well he doubted" I admit very frankly that drain ing a few Swamps would not be a isuthcicnt improvement to "stay the tide of emigration," because this would be only a partial im provement; affecting only a few individuals, and not operating ge nerally and beneficially upon the whole community. Amicus lias If this increase were altogether among the black, population, and if the whites had not in ten years had a single addition to their num bers, I presume it would be a cause of very little alarm; but this increase must have been pro portionable among the whites and blacks, and if so, into what insig nificancy does this "alarming in crease" dwindle. What a timid, easily aft righted creature, this Amicus must be, to be alarmed at shadows, and those the production of a sickly fancy and diseased im agination. As wc cannot ascer tain the increase of the black po pulation of our own State for the last ten years, perhaps it may not be improper, in order to divest ourselves of the terror with which Not one of them ever thought or ifar from being settled, altliou dreamt of any danger from this source the idea is too ridiculous to demand a serious refutation. iroretgm From Europe. By arrivals at New-York, London papers to the 12th ultimo, have been received. They afford no news of moment, except a rumor for the twentieth time repeated, and as often con tradicted, that the Ottoman Porte had formally notified the Ambas sadors of the d liferent powers re sident at Constantinople, of its un alterable determination to "reject all diplomatic overtures in favor of the Greek insurgents." It is possibly true and it may be, if t ' . . ... . 1 t Amicus .has endeavoured to be-the brave patriots remain taithtul strew us, to take a view of that 'to their own noble cause, and suc cess continues as it has recently no new occurrences of importance naa iranspirea. nie Anti-Co stitutionalists, if put down in 0lK. section of the country, suddenly appeared in other places in sue! numbers and with such means, could not be accounted for on an other ground, than that they were reinforced and furnished with mo ncy by Spain or some other f0N eign power. There was no doub that a large majority of the irno.v rant lower classes of the Portu. guese population, were taught to believe they must oppose a gov ernment which would operate against the interests of their lon established religion and habit?! One letter expresses a belief that war must yet be carried into Spain" of some of our sister States. The increase of the black population! done to reward their struggles, of South-Carolina, from 1800 to1 that they may stand in as little 1810, was 50,214; while that of need of foreign assistance, as they the white for the same period, was may crave the forbearance of their 159,524; more than treble the in- cruel oppressors, crease of the black population.! The great question of Catholic And it is well known that the Emancipation, was brought up in number of slaves in South-Caroli- the House of Commons on the certainly taken a very unfair hold na in proportion to the whites, is 5th, and decided on the morning on this sentence. What the Gov- j much greater than in this State, of the 7th, ayes 272, noes 276 ernor obviously meant by the im-'and that the slaves there are far majority against the motion, four. provement of the State, was not more numerous than here. But The decision had produced much merely the draining of a few in that State, the increase is by!no excitement in Ireland, and ar swnmps, but a general Sc extensive means alarming, and of course rangements are making to send a system of internal improvement, 'must be inconsiderable here. large deputation, composed of ships, and the rest European and throughout the whole State as But Amicus tells us this alarming members from all the counties,' Turkish transports. There were he expresses himself in a prcce- increase has driven vast numbers with an address to the King on! no troops on board, but money, tling part of his Message, "by to where an "equality of rights, the subject. provisions, and ammunition; Tho opening our water courses, re- Sec" Is it true then that the Sir Walter Scott has confessed specie on board amounted to pairing old roads and making new slaves in Tennessee, Alabama, himself to be the entire and sole j 900,000 Spanish dollars. ones:' and 1 would add, by intro- and Georgia have an equality of author of the Wavcrly Novels.! The Austrian Observer, of the ducmg a general system or agri- rights with the whites If co, it TJ Greece. Private letters from Constantinople, of the 4tli Jan, announce that the Porte had de clared through the Reis Effendi,itj determination to reject all diplo matic overtures in favor of the Greek insurgents. The motives for this decision are the same as those expressed on previous oc casions. The Egyptian fleet which sail ed from Alexandria for the Moreo, on the 20th Nov. commanded by Moharem Bey, son-in-law of the Pacha, consists of 78 sail, of which 30 are sloops of war, 4 fire The secret was directly and final-; 17th Feb. states that according j 1 1 . . ..x ""l 11.11 i. y . 11 i rv ii rtn . . 1 r g cuiiurui liiiuiuYuuiuiu. ouiti an is a new ana strange doctrine to -v aivuigcd at the iMiinourg l lie- io recent advices trom ureece, a these desirable objects be effectu- me, and I must acknowledge mv-!atrical Fund Dinner, on Friday,! ally accomplished, 1 will take up- self greatly indebted to Amicus-the 27th of February. on mysclt to say, and I hazard lit- lor the information. But perhaps1 a he statement which appeared battle was fought on the 19th Dec. at Belira, (on the other side of Parnassus,) in which the Greeks tie in the expression, that the tide he will tell lis he did not mean in the papers a short time since, had the advantage. The third victory gained by Ka- of emigration would be complete- these States, when he was talking of information having been recei- ly stayed. ;so pertly about the vast numbers ved by the North-West Company, 'raiskaki is confirmed. The boo- jjul it uas uuuu.uiy iui juui- who nave ueen arivcn irom our oi oapi. r ranKim Having succeed- iy laiven at vonzza was mucn ;t rc- liands after by emigration, before he could in- people have been driven from j foundation, no accounts of that of- his victories at Arakova and Vo- horscs, provi- cus io sei asiue euner reany or ctaie, uy tins alarming increase ot cd in the objects ot his journey, more considerable than at hrs hypothetical!)', all other reasons the black population; if so, then and gone on board the Blossom ported. Salona is in the for the depopulation of our State his puissant argument, that those, sloop of War, is entirely without, of the Greeks. Karaiskaki, troduce to advantage his favorite their native State by the dread ofjficer having been received from Hzza, where he took 1500 doctrine of Slavery, to account for this alarming evil, must 'fall to the! the North-West Company, or all kinds of ammunition, mis extensive ana lamenianic evil, .ground; tor those numerous emi "The alarming increase of the grants, with very few exceptions, colored population," he assei ts, I have wended their way to the wes "may be looked upon as the prime j tern district of Tennessee, to Ala cause which has driven such a jbama, and to Georgia. But what large number of our citizens to where an equality of rights has produced a corresponding har mony in the sentiments, interests, and feelings of society." What Amicus has taken his no tions of this alarming increase of our colored population from, I am unable to conjecture. So far from the population of this State, cither white or black, increasing to an alarming extent, we have great reasons to regret, that its increase is no greater. I am ve ry sorry that 1 cannot present a goes more completely to show the fallacy of his argument, is that those vast crowds of people who have been driven from our State, have been attended and accompa nied by a number of Slaves still more vast and yet Amicus would gull us with the belief, that they removed to evade the gathering storm of an insurrection! Can any thing bo more extravagant and foolish! Can he seriously attempt to make us believe that men of common sense and understanding would retreat with as much preci- statement of the increase of thc;pitation as Lot fled from Sodom J11- i. r... t . . . Diaciv population oi our fctate, lor and yet carry with them the very evil which was the cause of all the last ten or twenty years: lam persuaded that the most timid and cowardly would have no cause of alarm from any such cause. In 1800, the population of North Carolina was 470,103 in 1310, 555,500--in 1820, 030,829 giv ing an increase, from 1800 "till 1810, of only 79,339; and from the their fears and uneasiness! An insurrection is a bug-bear which now will not even frighten women and children. Who ever heard one of the numerous groups oi emigrants, that passed through through any other channel. Last year there was coined at the British Mint, gold and silver to the value of six millions and a half sterling, equal to $28,860,000. From the establishment of our go vernment to the present time, the whole amount coined in the Uni ted States' Mint, docs not exceed 823,000,000 less by nearly six millions, than the amount coined in the British Mint in one year. It is mentioned in proof of the great value of the newly acquired English possessions on the Jenas serim coast, that samples of Cot ton have been already produced, superior in quality to the Bandu, which had been considered the best grown in Hindostan. They were flattering themselves with the hope that this Cotton would become a competitor in the Eng lish market with the American Sea-Island. Portugal. It was reported on the 12th, that despatches had ar rived from Gen. Clinton, in Pnr- our country in the course of thei tugal, for immediate reinforce last year, mention an insurrection 'mem. Private letters from Lis- 1ic;t norm.1 till IQn C 1 o.- onn T ' , "-"i uuii nit m?.r x iiwiiu it,liers II 0111 1-iIS- last poriodulllSof only 8..,o29.;a8 the cause of their removal ! '.bo,, state-that poiiifeal affairs were sions, tec. surprised and cut to pieces near Lepanto, a corps of 1000 Turks, who were marching to Salona, to relieve that place. Part of Karaiskaki's army are to be sent to the army of Eleusia. Two hundred Peloponesians have already repaired thither, and 2000 men, under Col. Gordon and Pc tronichaly,are going by sea to the Pirccus, escorted by the American frigate commanded by Miaulis All these forces united, are simul taneously to attack the Seraskicr, Redschid Pacha, who has ap proached Athens, from which ho had retired in consequence of the victory of Arakova. South America. We learn from a gentleman who came pas senger in the brig Caledonia, arrived on Saturday last at Balti more from llio Grande, that pre vious to the sailing of the C. it was reported that a battle had been fought between the Brazilian for ces and those of the Banda Ori ental, in which the loss on both sides was very great, 4 or 5,000 men both parties claimed the victorr. 5-
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